{"id":883881,"date":"2020-07-07T16:33:34","date_gmt":"2020-07-07T23:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/?post_type=blog&#038;p=883881"},"modified":"2021-09-01T12:30:59","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T19:30:59","slug":"a-global-report-card","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-living-atlas\/sustainable-development\/a-global-report-card","title":{"rendered":"A global sustainability report card"},"author":9952,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[37511,430212],"tags":[39271,40161,704381,141082,667481],"industry":[],"product":[36581],"class_list":["post-883881","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sharing-collaboration","category-sustainable-development","tag-climate-change","tag-living-atlas-of-the-world","tag-resiliency","tag-un-sustainable-development-goals","tag-whats-new-june-2020","product-arcgis-living-atlas"],"acf":{"short_description":"The 2020 Environmental Performance Index (EPI) is now available in ArcGIS Living Atlas. 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Fortunately, the <a href=\"https:\/\/envirocenter.yale.edu\/\">Yale Environmental Law and Policy Center<\/a> along with\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The Center for International Earth Science Information Network at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.earth.columbia.edu\/\">Columbia University\u2019s Earth Institute<\/a> are tackling this challenge.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">For the last\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">22 years<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0they have been\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">compiling the best-available data from organizations around the world to create an <a href=\"https:\/\/epi.yale.edu\/\">Environmental Performance Index<\/a>\u00a0(EPI)<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">. 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The 2020 EPI offers a powerful tool for a variety of stakeholders interested in achieving a sustainable future"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p>In the 2020 EPI release, the country that scored the highest was Denmark with an EPI score of 82.5 out of 100. The EPI team emphasized the fact that all countries have improvements to make, even those who are performing well. To better understand performance, you can view and analyze trends based on location, development and policy progress. The US ranked 24th, at the bottom of rankings for other developed countries. Within the Global South, Nigeria and India rank near the bottom. Drilling down into the individual scores, we can see air quality, biodiversity, and climate change offer the greatest areas for improvement.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":918531,"id":918531,"title":"epi_dashboard","filename":"epi_dashboard.jpg","filesize":162087,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/06\/epi_dashboard.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-living-atlas\/sustainable-development\/a-global-report-card\/epi_dashboard","alt":"","author":"9952","description":"","caption":"","name":"epi_dashboard","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":883881,"date":"2020-07-06 23:08:10","modified":"2020-07-06 23:08:10","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1920,"height":903,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/06\/epi_dashboard-213x200.jpg","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":200,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/06\/epi_dashboard.jpg","medium-width":464,"medium-height":218,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/06\/epi_dashboard.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":361,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/06\/epi_dashboard.jpg","large-width":1920,"large-height":903,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/06\/epi_dashboard-1536x722.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":722,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/06\/epi_dashboard.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":903,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/06\/epi_dashboard-826x388.jpg","card_image-width":826,"card_image-height":388,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/06\/epi_dashboard.jpg","wide_image-width":1920,"wide_image-height":903}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":"https:\/\/yalemaps.maps.arcgis.com\/apps\/dashboards\/8dd0d10f07544331888ecc2a406d1825"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">To create a wholistic EPI, the organization measures each country on a variety of individual scores covering environmental health, ecosystem vitality,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> and new metrics that assess waste management, carbon dioxide emissions from land cover change, and emissions of fluorinated gases<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Each of the indicators is weighted to come up with the higher-level scores and rankings.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p>The EPI serves as a decision support tool, backing up complex conversations about global policies with real-world data. The score helps governments and policymakers understand if regulations and environmental commitments are working. By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-living-atlas\/sustainable-development\/a-global-report-card\/\">tracking trends<\/a> across time, they are able to spot problems and areas of success.<\/p>\n<p>You can add the EPI data to your analysis using the data page below. 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